High Fructose Corn Syrup
Food Chain Radio Show #1063
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Too Sweet To Eat?
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Guests: Dana Flavin, MS, MD, PHD –The Foundation for Collaborative Medicine and Research
For most of our human history, we consumed about 15 grams of fructose a day in the fruits and vegetables we ate. That works out to about 11.4 pounds of fructose per year.
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) – Too sweet to eat?
Then in the 1970’s, the corn processing industry developed High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), and sold it into processed foods. We now eat, on average, 50 to 60 pounds of HFCS per year.
From the 1970s to today, obesity rates have more than tripled and the incidence of diabetes has increased more than seven fold. HFCS may not be the only reason for the increase, but according to many, it may be one of the big reasons.
But obesity and diabetes may not be the only problems associated with HFDC.
According to a peer-reviewed study published in Environmental Health Magazine, 45% of HFCS samples tested were tainted with mercury, which the EPA states is a powerful neurotoxin that can impair speech, memory and attention.
All that corn sweetness leads us to ask…
Leave a comment below: Is High Fructose Corn Syrup too sweet to eat?
Tune in here, for the syndicated Food Chain Radio Show #1063 July 9, 2016 Saturday 9AM Pacific
Historically, “sweetness” was an abstract quality before it was a taste, as in “Life is Sweet.” Only the rich could afford concentrated calories, either fat or carbs.
Now it is deeply troubling to modern day Puritans that the poor have ready access to sweetness and richness.
Luckily, we have many nutritionists around to explain to us that food of the approved sorts is supposed to be expensive.
Classism is a mini-splenda’ed thing.